Global InformationTagetes microglossa information
| Tagetes microglossa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Tagetes |
| Species: | T. microglossa
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| Binomial name | |
| Tagetes microglossa Benth. 1845
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Tagetes jaliscana Rydb. | |
Tagetes microglossa is a Mesoamerican species of marigold in the family Asteraceae. It grows in Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador, as well as in central and southern Mexico, from Jalisco to Chiapas.[2][3][4][5][6]
Tagetes microglossa is a hairless annual herb up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately compound with 7-11 leaflets. The plant produces a few flower heads are yellow, in a flat-topped array, each head containing 3-5 ray florets surrounding numerous disc florets.[7]
- ^ The Plant List, Tagetes microglossa Benth.
- ^ Turner, B. L. 1996. The Comps of Mexico: A systematic account of the family Asteraceae, vol. 6. Tageteae and Athemideae. Phytologia Memoirs. 10: i–ii, 1–22, 43–93
- ^ Strother, J. L. 1999. Compositae–Heliantheae s. l. 5: 1–232. In D.E. Breedlove (ed.) Flora of Chiapas. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco
- ^ Berendsohn, W.G. & A.E. Araniva de González. 1989. Listado básico de la Flora Salvadorensis: Dicotyledonae, Sympetalae (pro parte): Labiatae, Bignoniaceae, Acanthaceae, Pedaliaceae, Martyniaceae, Gesneriaceae, Compositae. Cuscatlania 1(3): 290–1–290–13
- ^ Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá
- ^ Tropicos, Tagetes microglossa Benth.
- ^ Rydberg, Per Axel 1913. in Britton, Nathaniel Lord, North American Flora 34: 157